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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No. 105
WEATHER WARMER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Wednesday, March 23, 1966
By Emery Goad
The idea of traffic control at the intersection of 15th and Iowa Streets received a favorable reaction from the majority of the Lawrence City Commissioners at their meeting yesterday, but no motion was made.
Although the intersection, examined in last Thursday's Daily Kansan, was not listed on the official agenda for the meeting, Mayor Ernest Pulliam opened the matter for discussion.
"WE KNOW this is a problem," said Ray S. Wells, city manager. "It is not being ignored."
Wells explained that recently the State Highway Commission quit making studies of intersections at state highways. Originally it was planned that city and state studies could be compared for a solution.
Since Iowa Street is also U.S. Highway 59, the ultimate decision for a correctional measure at the corner is up to the state commission.
According to Wells, the city is in the process of obtaining traffic counters to make studies at the area.
Thomas Jenkins, instructor in civil engineering, also was at the meeting and explained a project of one of his classes on traffic engineering.
"My students are making comprehensive
studies of that area and we plan to make the findings available in May when completed," Jenkins said.
"I SELECTED THIS corner because of the congestion and I definitely feel there should be some sort of traffic control at the intersection," he said.
The Rev. Norman Steffen, pastor of the University Lutheran Church, represented his congregation at the meeting.
"We urge the city to use every means possible, as rapidly as possible to take care of the problem intersection." Rev. Steffen also said that the coverage in the Daily Kansan was pleasing and drew a response from church members.
Mayor Pulliam promised that the commission would study the intersection. Commissioner James Schubert said that something would be done on the matter.
A QUESTION on the city's ability to finance a traffic control measure was raised by John Emick.
This corner has been the scene of numerous property damage accidents and rates near the top of the list of corners in Lawrence that have the most injury accidents.
VOX COUNTERS
UP planks go to ASC
By Eric Morgenthaler
With a flood of last-minute legislation, University Party (UP) last night introduced virtually every plank of its spring platform into the last scheduled preelection meeting of the All Student Council (ASC).
Vox Populi (Vox) leaders, aroused by their opponents' tactics, countered by petitioning and receiving permission for a special ASC meeting for Monday, at which time the UP bills can be acted upon.
"WE ARE CALLING the meeting because the student body is entitled to hear both sides of the story," said Tom Rader, Greensburg sophomore and Vox candidate for student body president. "This has been a gross abuse of what should be a dignified body," he said.
The council passed a resolution to immediately create a joint ASC-Student Labor Organization committee to investigate student wage levels on campus and report its findings to the State Board of Regents. The measure was sponsored by Al Martin, Shawnee Mission sophomore and UP candidate for student body president.
At Tuesday's meeting, UP introduced six bills and three resolutions. Vox introduced two bills.
By introducing their platform as a series of bills, UP members in effect were delaying ASC action on their proposals until the next meeting-after the spring election. The Vox move for a special meeting, however, will enable the ASC to dispose of pending legislation before the election.
BY ASC PROCEDURE, bills are referred to a committee on committees before being considered by the ASC and thus are not voted on the same night they are introduced. But resolutions can be acted upon when first introduced.
Mike McNally, Bartlesville, Okla., junior and ASC chairman, rejected a UP bill dealing with the establishment of a new Kansas Union, saying that the bill created a student research committee of a non-permanent nature and therefore should be introduced as a resolution.
There was debate at Tuesday's meeting as to whether some of the UP bills actually qualified as bills. A section in ASC Bill 2 says that bills shall deal with matters of a permanent nature; resolutions deal with matters of a temporary nature.
tablishment and help supervise the operation of a new Kansas Union Convention Center." McNally accepted the bill and referred it to the committee on committees.
Martin reworded and reintroduced the measure to provide for a committee "to research the es-
See ASC MEETING Page 7
WOMEN'S RULES
Conduct code, late signouts major motions
By Elizabeth Rhodes
The Associated Women Students (AWS) regulations convention last night adopted seven new proposals covering signout procedures, exceptions to closing hours, rules during summer session and AWS regulations applying to women living in authorized off-campus and organized housing, and defeated three concerning a code of conduct.
These proposals will be added to those passed during the March 12 convention. According to Emily Taylor, dean of women, announcement of the new regulations will come sometime after May 1.
MEETING IN THE Ballroom of the Kansas Union, the 140 delegates passed an obligatory signout system for seniors, juniors and second-semester sophomores out after security hours.
The measure outlines an "in-out" system of signouts to be established by each group. This system could be a "flip-tag" arrangement whereby the living groups would let each woman sign in and out at her own discretion. Using a weighted voting system, the motion passed 183 to 2.
Also passed was a proposal making overnight signout obligatory for freshmen and first semester sophomores. Women in these two categories would be required to fill out a form listing their name, destination, host, host's telephone number and expected time of return. The form is to be left in a place not open to the general public. This place would be decided by the individual living group.
SENIORS, JUNIORS, and second-se semester sophomores absent from their living groups would also be able to use this system.
A unanimous voice vote decided mandatory signout for all women planning to be away from their
living groups more than 24 hours. The student would be required to give her name, destination, and expected time of return on an overnight signout sheet.
Other proposals passed:
- All AWS regulations passed by the AWS Senate, Dean Taylor, the Council on Student Affairs and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, will apply to the summer session. This measure passed by a unanimous vote.
- AWS regulations including signouts, will apply to women living in organized living groups and approved housing. This refers mainly to sophomores, juniors and those living in approved housing, and does not include seniors living off campus.
- Signout procedures will not apply to married women.
- There will be specified closing hour exceptions observed by freshmen and first-semester sophomores. The hours are planned as midnight Sunday through Thursday during Fall orientation week and final examinations weeks, on the night preceding Thanksgiving vacation, on midnight during any vacation, and between semesters. Closing for the last day of final examinations through commencement will be 1 a.m.
- Only three motions failed. All concerned the AWS code of conduct. Because no motion changing the code passed by the necessary two-thirds vote, there will be no AWS code of conduct.
- FOLLOWING DISCUSSION of the regulations proposals, the convention voiced recommendations to be considered along with the official convention rulings. According to Dean Taylor, the recommendations were left in that form because they concerned issues not discussed by the living groups.
See WOMEN'S RULES p. 7
—Photo by Hector Olave
GLENDA HORD (STANDING, RIGHT) INTRODUCES SIGNOUT MOTION New ruling gives houses right to set own signout procedures.